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Brooknei
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
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Excluding folders that contain picture files from being index to Photos

Hi  Is there a way of excluding a folder/folders from being indexed for picture files and then shown in Photos ? In my case, Dropbox is showing numerous website image files that are stored in my ...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    4 years ago
    Brooknei wrote:

    Is there a way of excluding a folder/folders from being indexed for picture files and then shown in Photos ?

    No. There was long ago, but Dropbox removed it along with most of the other photo-related features that we had at the time.

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Siska
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

I would also really like to be able to select the folders that are included in the Photos area of Dropbox. I'm using Dropbox also for backups of my PC and have tons of icons and other more technical images in them. They don't need to be shown together with my "real" photographs. Thos are really only stored in "Pictures" and "Camera Uploads" folders, so it would be ideal if I could tell Dropbox to only show pictures in those folders and their subfolders.

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